Question: The union government is planning to bring abill to increase the minimum legal age of marriage for woman from………… years
a) 18 to 21
b) 18 to 20
c) 16to 20
d) 16 to 21
Ans:a
Related Facts:
- Odisha’s Ganjam has declared itself a child marriage free district — the first in the State.
- The district administration has been able to stop as many as 450 child marriages and video-record 48,383 marriages in two years — 2020 and 2021.
- We decided in 2019 to prevent child marriages on mission mode and generate general awareness against it,” Vijay Amruta Kulange, Ganjam District Magistrate, told The Hindu on Monday.
- Ganjam had started a programme Nirbhaya Kadhi (Fearless bud).
- Highlight points:
- The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, passed on 28 September 1929, in the Imperial Legislative Council of India, fixed the age of marriage for girls at 14 years and boys at 18 years.
- In 1949, after India’s independence, it was amended to 15 for girls, and in 1978 to 18 for girls and 21 for boys.
By – Pawan Mishra